This is one dish I very often make if I have to take something Japanese/Chinese – Marinate Cucumber & Cabbage With Chilli Sauce (I used a recipe a friend gave me when we were living in Hong Kong). I might’ve put a little too much chilli oil, it was quite spicy.

これも、アジア系の食事の時のデザートというとこればかり作っているライチのゼリー。香港でお紅茶教室で教えていただいたレシピのアレンジです。

Again this is one dessert I make over and over to serve at an Asian meal, Lychee Jelly. I learned this at Black Tea Course in Hong Kong.

One of them brought a bottle of sake, which we had a little to start with, then we had beer. As always I had rice with all this but my friends had just beer at first then a little rice at the end. It was such a spread, they were all delicious and I got so full! One of these friends is from Nagoya so we talked about the particular culture of Nagoya, which is very interesting. I’ve visited Nagoya a couple of times and had a lovely time when one of my friends (actually she is the one who was running the Black Tea Course that I mentioned above in Hong Kong) lived in Nagoya sometime ago for a few years and I visited her. A lovely memory.